1. The 180–ton British ship Caesar, commanded by Lucius O’Brien, was sailing from London for Jamaica with a large quantity of dry goods and other cargo in the spring of 1777 when it was captured off Barbados and carried into Dartmouth, Mass., by the armed Connecticut privateer brig Fanny, commanded by Azariah Whittlesey (see the Providence Gazette, 10 May 1777, and the Boston Gazette, 12 May 1777; see also Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 8:945, 953). In late May the owners of the Fanny petitioned the Connecticut general assembly to attempt to have the Caesar and its cargo transported to Connecticut, but the vessel and its contents were sold at public auction at Dartmouth on 4 June (see the memorial of Thomas Mumford to the Connecticut general assembly, 23 May 1777, in Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 8:1021–22, and the Independent Chronicle, 29 May 1777; see also Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 8:1040–41). The Caesar was libeled later this month in the Massachusetts admiralty court for the southern district (see William Warner to his parents, 16 May 1777, ibid., 977, and the Independent Chronicle [Boston], 26 June 1777; see also Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 9:173–74). The Connecticut general assembly at its 13 June session resolved to direct Babcock to receive some of the captured cargo at Dartmouth (Hinman, Historical Collection description begins Royal R. Hinman, comp. A Historical Collection, from Official Records, Files &c., of the Part Sustained by Connecticut, during the War of the Revolution. Hartford, 1842. description ends , 449–50). The owners of the Fanny included Babcock and Philadelphia merchant Archibald Blair as well as five other businessmen from Connecticut, Thomas Mumford of Groton, William Hart of Saybrook, Samuel Brown of Guilford, Thomas Hazard of New Haven, and John Grennell of Fairfield (see the memorial of Adam Babcock to the Massachusetts council, 17 Dec. 1776, in Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 7:503).